Jon Zanone
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Are you looking at your export on a computer monitor? What is the final destination of your file?
Jon
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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Try using the animation CODEC when you render out of AE…
Jon
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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Look at using the ‘pan & zoom’ effect, if your going for that ‘Ken Burns’ effect. Add some filler (it could be anything, like a submaster FX, a clip of video), add the P&Z FX. Go into the FX edit mode, and click on the little box in the top left hand corner. A dialog will open asking you to select your photo. Play!
Jon
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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What NLE captured the footage – FCP, Avid or (heaven help you) iMovie?
I don’t think the fact you shot it in DVCPRo50 (the 900 is an AWESOME camera, BTW) is important. I think the problem was how it was captured initially. Also the fact it plays in another FCP system is key.
Have you tried copying one of the video files, moving the copy to your desktop, and adding a .mov extention? Or, will the file play in Quicktime without adding an extension? Will it then play using Quicktime? If it does, it SHOULD import into the Avid fine. If it doesn’t play, that’s a clue that whatever CODEC the original file was captured in is not on your machine.
As a side note, I recently exported a same as source quicktime from an older MC Meridian system (c. 1999). Even after installing the Meridian CODEC into a new fancy shcmancy iMac, it would not play the quicktime. However, it plays fine on an XP machine! Go figure…
Jon
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Well there’s your problem! Moss is incompatible with Avid. Unless of course, you have Moss2.5….
I am a little confused – you say you’ve got files with a .av extension? Are you on a PC? Are they AVI files? If not, what kind of file is a .av?
If 6.5 didn’t work, try going back to 6.0.
Jon
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I think what’s relevant is someone else captured the footage. Are you sure the footage was captured correctly? You don’t say, but I get that you are receiving this footage as Quicktime – am I correct in my assumption? Check your import options make sure they look correct (I’m not in front of my Avid, and it’s been a long weekend) – I don’t remember if there is a radio button for audio and video or not. There is an option button on the first import dialog that pops up.
Capturing DVCPro50 is not relevant, unless you are capturing DV footage – then it’s a waste of space. Capturing DV via Firewire gets all those pesky 1’s and 0’s – nothing more, nothing less. Of course, if you are on an older system without the DVCPRO50 CODEC, then that might be your problem.
Your version of QT is very important. It should be the recommended version. Check the readme for your software version. There were HUGE problems with ver7.0 QT when it first came out – Avid would not export or import footage, among other strange behaviors. Avid apparently fixed that problem in subsequent releases. Do you have the latest version of software? I don’t need 7.0, so I keep 6.5 on my machines.
If you could fill us in on your system details, that would be a great start… (OS / video card / memory / CPU)
Jon
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I guess I’m not understanding the problem. If you don’t want audio from a clip, don’t edit it in. Simply deselect the audio track on the timeline, and add your video. When you add the audio, deselect the video track and plop the audio in.
Did I understand your question, or no?
I’ve not used FCP, but the advice I’ve heard from others is ‘try not to make Avid work like FCP’. Once you get the concept, it is very intuitive. Avid works in ‘modes’. Some people hate it, I personally like it. I’ve got the segment overwrite mode mapped to my keyboard, as well as trim and edit mode. It’s then a matter of hitting a key to activate a mode. To move a clip around, enter segment mode (it’s the little red arrow next to the yellow arrow at the bottom of the timeline). Using the red arrow will overwrite other clips. Using the yellow arrow will splice in your clip (meaning if you move a 5 second clip from V1 to V2, it will move everything on V2 down 5 seconds). I think in the 12 years I’ve edited on Avid I’ve used the splice tool twice.
The replace edit function is a seriously wonderful tool. I suggest mapping it to your keyboard as well (it’s in tools/command pallette under the edit tab). With it, you can replace either audio or video (or both), or edit in new clips using mark in/out, or even add an edit in black and use it there. There’s a great tutorial somewhere here in the COW, but I can’t find it. Anyone know where that is?
I know it’s frustrating using a new set of tools, but thats what it comes down to – they are tools. Please post if you have more questions!
Jon
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Should be on your keyboard…
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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A good discussion on ‘quality’ as it relates to video.
https://www.terraguide.com/Quality.html
It’s seems to date itself to pre-1997, but a good discussion including BetaSP…
Jon
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Are you bringing the footage in via Firewire? If so, the best resolution you will get is DV25. Capturing 1:1 via firewire only wastes space. DV via firewire ‘is what it is’. Ones & zeros. you can’t double the rate of DV by capturing uncompressed. I’m not even sure you get anything more by capturing via SDI. It’s not an issue with the OMF format, it’s the data rate associated with DV.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong…
Jon